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In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50040452

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Comment · 21 days ago

I love being downvoted for being objectively correct!

Comment · 22 days ago

No they can’t. The author’s point is these are computer programs written by humans. It doesn’t matter if they’re LLM backed or not.

If I write a program:

if (rand() % 2) launch_missles();

And wire that function to actually launch a missile, the computer didn’t make a decision. And so it is with people prompting agents.

Comment · 26 days ago

I know some people don't see these as benefits (compared to "useful products like smartphones"), but we do cause instrument pricing to be more accurate and a thinner buy/sell spread and greatly increase liquidity.

Comment · 26 days ago

Last time I checked it costs closer to 500K to run SOTA open models at any usable speed.

Comment · 27 days ago

I work for an HFT (not Jane Street) so I am biased, but we (the HFT industry as a whole) are quite small compared to big tech.

I’d estimate the total global HFT revenue to be 100 billion dollars a year, which is less than Apple and a tiny percentage of all big tech combined.

Comment · 1 month ago

You got me curious...

I am around 1500 (actually 1649 on lichess blitz, but close enough).

I explored the last 5 games I played on lichess. Here are the number of moves before lichess had never seen that position before for each of the 5 games: 6, 12, 16, 15, 11.

> If you find yourself in a novel position within 10-15 moves it's likely a resignable one

The opponent is also going to be in a novel position. Should both players resign?

Just in case you think this is limited to low rated players like 1500s, look at MagnusCarlsen's most used account on Blitz: https://lichess.org/@/DrNykterstein/search?perf=2

You will see that most games become unique to the whole of lichess within 15-20 moves and a good chunk between 10-15.

Comment · 1 month ago

I agree with you right up until “end of story”. Absolutely they should be held accountable, but stories provide details and there is nothing wrong with including details in the title.

Or could we take your original statement to its logical conclusion and change the title to just “OpenAI commits crime”?

Comment · 1 month ago

> They're accountable for what their software does.

Sure, but doesn’t it depend on the circumstances?